Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-22 Thread Horace Heffner
On Feb 21, 2011, at 6:27 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net wrote: As a double check on concepts, if you plug x=0.02856 into x/((x+(1- x)*0.0006)) then you get 0.98. That is to say, 98% of the mass of the volume expelled is water, and 2% steam - your starting

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: At 03:01 PM 2/21/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: By whom? Maybe you're new to the field. Well, not exactly. It was a joke. Promises have been made by Pons Fleischmann first in 1989 (just watch their

Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-22 Thread Peter Gluck
OK, gentlemen, now you have a steamless- Wasser uber alles experiment too. Peter On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.netwrote: On Feb 21, 2011, at 6:50 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 02/21/2011 09:48 PM, Horace Heffner wrote: On Feb 21, 2011, at 1:40

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: Excess heat is an experimental result. Excess heat is an interpretation of experimental results. If it is the result of an artifact, it should be possible to identify the artifact. Maybe, but it takes time

Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.netwrote: That said, let's proceed on with your defined problem where 2% of the water is vaporized, i.e. the ejecta is 98% liquid by mass, 98% wet by mass. |For an input flow rate of 300 cc/min = 300 mg/min, The above

Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net wrote: As a double check on concepts, if you plug x=0.02856 into x/((x+(1-x)*0.0006)) then you get 0.98. That is to say, 98% of the mass of the volume expelled is water, and 2%

Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:04 AM, Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.netwrote: I look forward to the report. This is obviously well beyond chemical if the consumables actually are H and Ni. The energy E per H is: E = (270kwh) /(0.4 g * Na / (1 gm/mol)) = 2.52x10^4 eV / H = 25 kEv per

Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Mark Iverson zeropo...@charter.net wrote: Joshua: A few clarifications from you would be helpful... Jed wrote: You do have to trust Levi, Celani and Dufour and some other people. To which Joshua stated: Why? They were hand-picked by Rossi. Where

Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Peter Gluck peter.gl...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Joshua, Perhaps *a possibly flawed demo* would be more fair and more technical. It was flawed in that data to prove the steam was dry was not given, the pump model was not provided, the hydrogen bottle was left

Re: [Vo]:an unofficial Rossi E-cat test

2011-02-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Peter Gluck peter.gl...@gmail.com wrote: This morning I have received this from Giuseppe Levi re this test : Average flux in that test was 1 liter per second (measured by me many times during the test). 1 liter per second?! Is that supposed to be per minute? Please ask the input and output

Re: [Vo]:an unofficial Rossi E-cat test

2011-02-22 Thread Peter Gluck
I just have asked confirmation. On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Peter Gluck peter.gl...@gmail.com wrote: This morning I have received this from Giuseppe Levi re this test : Average flux in that test was 1 liter per second (measured by me many

Re: [Vo]:an unofficial Rossi E-cat test

2011-02-22 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Peter Gluck peter.gl...@gmail.com wrote: This morning I have received this from Giuseppe Levi re this test : Average flux in that test was 1 liter per second (measured by me many times during the test). 1 liter per

RE: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-22 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
From: Joshua Cude From Lomax: This is the point, Joshua: There are hundreds of researchers who have reported significant anomalous heat from palladium deuteride. The large number is actually disturbing. So many experiments, and they never get better. They can't come up with one that

Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-22 Thread Horace Heffner
This is a resend test. I sent this yesterday, but it did not show up in the archives. Something is going wrong with vortex-l. On Feb 21, 2011, at 6:50 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 02/21/2011 09:48 PM, Horace Heffner wrote: On Feb 21, 2011, at 1:40 PM, Joshua Cude wrote: On

Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-22 Thread Horace Heffner
This is a resend test to see if this shows up in the archives this time. On Feb 21, 2011, at 6:27 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net wrote: As a double check on concepts, if you plug x=0.02856 into x/((x+(1- x)*0.0006)) then you get 0.98. That is to say, 98% of

[Vo]:Abd being censured?

2011-02-22 Thread Horace Heffner
I have seen responses to Abd ul-Rahman Lomax in my vortex-l email, but have seen no original email from him since 26 Jan, 2011. I just discovered that I can see that he is posting if I go to the archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l%40eskimo.com/ I checked email rejected by my

Re: [Vo]:an unofficial Rossi E-cat test

2011-02-22 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Peter Gluck: As I wrote in my Ego-Out blog 2011 is a very bad year for skeptics. By the way Bob Park is ignoring the subject with great enthusiasm. Yes indeed. More than a month has passed by and Park's conspicuous silence on this matter strikes me personally almost as if it is a kind of

Re: [Vo]:an unofficial Rossi E-cat test

2011-02-22 Thread Peter Gluck
I will ask good old Bob again- why? On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 4:46 PM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote: From Peter Gluck: As I wrote in my Ego-Out blog 2011 is a very bad year for skeptics. By the way Bob Park is ignoring the subject with great enthusiasm.

[Vo]:List of Rossi 18-hour test parameters

2011-02-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
A source close to the recent 18-hour test of the Rossi device gave me the following figures. These are approximations. Flow rate: 3,000 L/h = 833 ml/s. Input temperature: 15°C Output temperature ~20°C Input power from control electronics: variable, average 80 W, closer to 20 W for 6 hours

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-22 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 02/21/2011 03:01 PM, Joshua Cude wrote: Promises have been made by Pons Fleischmann first in 1989 (just watch their interviews on youtube, where they claim it is the ideal energy source: clean and unlimited and simple) and then by just about every cold fusion advocate since, including

Re: [Vo]:List of Rossi 18-hour test parameters

2011-02-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
More notes I do not know if they used a pump, or simply let the water flow from the tap. I have used both methods at various times, and so has Dennis Cravens, although not for such a large flow rate. They said they checked the flow rate several times which I assume means it was measured manually,

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.comwrote: On 02/21/2011 03:01 PM, Joshua Cude wrote: Promises have been made by Pons Fleischmann first in 1989 (just watch their interviews on youtube, where they claim it is the ideal energy source: clean and unlimited

Re: [Vo]:Counter-strike launched in textbook controversy

2011-02-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:50 PM 2/21/2011, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Abd ul-Rahman Lomax's message of Mon, 21 Feb 2011 09:40:47 -0500: Hi, [snip] But the result that is known is that helium is produced, and the observed energy supports the conclusion that the primary fuel is deuterium. unknown nuclear

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:31 PM 2/21/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: I've seen what they write. Practically every review is preoccupied with defending the reality of the field. I know you've read Storms' abstract to his latest review, because you are acknowledged in the paper. It's 2010, and most of it reiterates the

Re: [Vo]:Counter-strike launched in textbook controversy

2011-02-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:54 PM 2/21/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: What about in the core of the sun? What mechanism operates there, if not brute force? All that is necessary is that the temperature be great enough that some level of fusion occurs. It's enough that the Boltzmann tail allows enough nuclei to have

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:51 PM 2/21/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: Yes, I am aware that I do not belong here. I joined because my critique of Levi's interpretation in the Yahoo group was cross-posted here, and was being (ineptly) challenged. I felt I had a good reason to come and defend it. I have joined only

[Vo]:Rossi Wrap-up

2011-02-22 Thread Jones Beene
Nothing new here but a decent wrap up, quoting Rothwell and Krivit: http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Cold-Fusion-It-May-Not-Be-Madness-71916.h tml And there is a slightly contrarian but non-skeptical perspective on the big-picture situation, as it now stands going into Spring 2011. Like or

Re: [Vo]:Abd being censured?

2011-02-22 Thread William Beaty
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Horace Heffner wrote: I have seen responses to Abd ul-Rahman Lomax in my vortex-l email, but have seen no original email from him since 26 Jan, 2011. I just discovered that I can see that he is posting if I go to the archives at: Might be eskimo.com recent crash. Or

RE: [Vo]:Abd being censured?

2011-02-22 Thread Mark Iverson
I think I've been rcving all the postings... I've got duplicates of the last two of Horaces' where he reposted because he didn't see the original... -Mark -Original Message- From: William Beaty [mailto:bi...@eskimo.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 9:58 AM To: Vortex-L Subject:

[Vo]:News section updated with 18-hour Rossi demonstration info.

2011-02-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://lenr-canr.org/News.htm Let me know if you don't see this. Google Chrome does not seem to accept the force reload HTML. As far as I know that is supposed to be: meta http-equiv=Pragma content=no-cache meta http-equiv=Expires content=0 Maybe that is out of date? If anyone knows

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
To summarize Cude's position: He does not believe in the scientific method, replication, high signal to noise ratios, peer review, calorimetry or the laws of thermodynamics. To be exact, he believe that whatever pops into his own mind, or what he says I believe, automatically overrules all of

RE: [Vo]:News section updated with 18-hour Rossi demonstration info.

2011-02-22 Thread Jones Beene
From: Jed Rothwell Let me know if you don't see this. Hmm ..

Re: [Vo]:List of Rossi 18-hour test parameters

2011-02-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Here is some additional info on the 18-hour test. I do not think I will add this to the News section. It can wait for a paper from Levi. This may have been reported here by Cousin Peter: Approximately 0.4 g of hydrogen was consumed in 18 hours. This is based on what sounds like a crude estimate

Re: [Vo]:News section updated with 18-hour Rossi demonstration info.

2011-02-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: *From:*Jed Rothwell Let me know if you don't see this. Hmm Or, as the professor said, raise your hand if you are not here. I meant if you don't see anything in the News section at LENR-CANR.org about the 18-hour test. If you see nothing, press Refresh. The

Re: [Vo]:News section updated with 18-hour Rossi demonstration info.

2011-02-22 Thread Terry Blanton
It showed fine, first pass, with Chrome. T

Re: [Vo]:News section updated with 18-hour Rossi demonstration info.

2011-02-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton wrote: It showed fine, first pass, with Chrome. Hmm . . . Maybe I have set some parameter wrong in my copy of Chrome. As long as most people can see it, no big deal - Jed

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:31 PM 2/21/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: If you examine what's being published, you don't find an attempt to prove it's real, not lately, anyway. You find, in primary research,

Re: [Vo]:Rossi credibility

2011-02-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:38 PM 2/21/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: His strategy might be reasonable. But a consequence of that strategy is that I'm not going to believe that Rossi is a demonstration of cold fusion. That's rather

Fw: [Vo]:Rossi Wrap-up

2011-02-22 Thread Dennis
Like or not, unless another experimenter or group - more open to disclosure of the operational details, can approximate the Rossi results of extremely high COP at the kilowatt level, in the next few months leading up to the promised MW demonstration, then it is going to be a frustrating period for

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-22 Thread Charles HOPE
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: The massive rejection of cold fusion, which extended to rejection of a graduate student thesis solely because it involved cold fusion research, and once the news of that got around, cut off the normal supply of

Re: [Vo]:List of Rossi 18-hour test parameters

2011-02-22 Thread Horace Heffner
On Feb 22, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Here is some additional info on the 18-hour test. I do not think I will add this to the News section. It can wait for a paper from Levi. This may have been reported here by Cousin Peter: Approximately 0.4 g of hydrogen was consumed in 18

Re: [Vo]:Rossi credibility

2011-02-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: I don't see why. For one thing, other researchers are not responsible for what Rossi claims, except perhaps Focardi. Levi is not a cold fusion research. Or he wasn't before Jan. 14. this isn't how politics works, Jed. It's how things would

Re: [Vo]:List of Rossi 18-hour test parameters

2011-02-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Horace Heffner wrote: The above chart is merely a very approximate visual aid to show feasible reaction product probabilities by a rule of thumb estimate. Copper is visualized as a most likely product. Izzatso? So you think the reports of copper can be explained by your theory? - Jed

[Vo]:[OT] Horseman of the Apocalypse

2011-02-22 Thread Terry Blanton
Watch for the next one in Wisconsin. This one appears around 1:15 on the time clock. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UKz3GVrHI8 T

[Vo]:Larsen Windom Patent - no test data?

2011-02-22 Thread Horace Heffner
The Larsen Windom Patent on gamma shielding: Apparatus and method for absorption of incident gamma radiation and its conversion to outgoing radiation at less penetrating, lower energies and frequencies : http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Wrap-up

2011-02-22 Thread Charles Hope
What part of the country are you in? Rossi will see any work at replication as an attempt to steal his pot of gold. I wouldn't bother asking for his blessing. Sent from my iPhone. On Feb 22, 2011, at 16:18, Dennis den...@netmdc.com wrote: Like or not, unless another experimenter or group

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:46 AM 2/22/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: Excess heat is an experimental result. Excess heat is an interpretation of experimental results. Sure. So are all experimental results

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Wrap-up

2011-02-22 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Charles Hope lookslikeiwasri...@gmail.com wrote: What part of the country are you in? I think Dr. Cravens remains at the Eastern University of New Mexico. T

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Wrap-up

2011-02-22 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: I think Dr. Cravens remains at the Eastern University of New Mexico. (Ruidoso is only about 80 miles from Roswell)

Re: [Vo]:List of Rossi 18-hour test parameters

2011-02-22 Thread Horace Heffner
On Feb 22, 2011, at 2:11 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Horace Heffner wrote: The above chart is merely a very approximate visual aid to show feasible reaction product probabilities by a rule of thumb estimate. Copper is visualized as a most likely product. Izzatso? So you think the reports of

RE: [Vo]:[OT] Horseman of the Apocalypse

2011-02-22 Thread Jones Beene
Coincidentally, I had just started reading The Twelfth Imam and the thought occurred - 'how would the West deal with an emergent Mahdi,' assuming that there were valid miracles being performed over there? Pat Robertson would no doubt be fouling his drawers, so to speak -Original

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Wrap-up

2011-02-22 Thread Dennis
in S. N.M. (Cloudcroft) I would think that he considers himself covered or he would not have gone public with a demo. Notice that in one of his interviews he said - let others go and do the same. I doubt that the patent office will grant anything unless he fully discloses his

RE: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:54 AM 2/22/2011, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: From: Joshua Cude From Lomax: This is the point, Joshua: There are hundreds of researchers who have reported significant anomalous heat from palladium deuteride. The large number is actually disturbing. So many

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:18 AM 2/22/2011, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 02/21/2011 03:01 PM, Joshua Cude wrote: Promises have been made by Pons Fleischmann first in 1989 (just watch their interviews on youtube, where they claim it is the ideal energy source: clean and unlimited and simple) and then by just

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: Any review of an effect that is not trivial to observe will reiterate the evidence for the effect. I checked the abstract for a review of high temp superconductivity (which incidentally has 100,000 publications

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-22 Thread Rich Murray
Neither Joshua nor I are implacable doctrinaire skeptics. Again, I am very impressed by the clarity and scope of Joshua Cude's assessments. Now, it is clear that he has been monitoring cold fusion adequately for many years. Cold fusion has always been a moribund field, as I observed carefully

Re: Fw: [Vo]:Rossi Wrap-up

2011-02-22 Thread Rich Murray
Abd Lomax is devoting much time and effort to enable anyone to prove neutron emissions with a small, low-cost deuterium-palladium electrolysis cell. I suggest he supply a weekly post on his progress, sharing all data immediately real-time, including full high-resolution views of both sides of the